U.S. Poverty Rate Up, Income Down for Second Straight Year (washingtonpost.com): "Nearly 1.7 million people fell into poverty last year, ticking the official poverty rate up to 12.1 percent from the 2001 rate of 11.7 percent, the second straight year that poverty has increased in the United States, the U.S. Census Bureau reported today. "

Wait for Bush to call for more tax breaks for the wealthy to end the scandal of rising poverty in the US. And to blame the democrats for the poverty.
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